Thursday went well. It started off a little slow due to a rain delay and low ceiling. Fortunately, it burned off by lunch time and launches started lining up quickly. We had a little issue with quite a few coming down ballistic so that made recovery difficult on some where there wasn’t much visual or tracking. All in all we still had an 80% recovery rate with only 4 left in the field. Hopefully they will still be recovered before the end of the weekend.
This year is a special treat for us. We have a third party in our recovery team. Our Navy daughter is home on leave, and joined us to work recovery. We had a real good time. There was a lot of goofing around during breaks in the action. Her dad and her were quite entertaining to watch as they had plant war, trying to pelt each other with beggers lice bushes, and other burr covered plants.
Once again SystemsGo has a truly talented group of team members and volunteers that put full effort into a great experience for all the students involved.
We have a shadow group from New Mexico this year. They have recently come online with the program and are helping in all areas to try to learn and mimic what we do here in order to replicate it in New Mexico starting next year. Here’s a great shout out to them and their group, it is wonderful to have them here and on board with SystemsGo.
Below is the launch schedule for tomorrow, Friday. There are 8 schools launching a total of 25 rockets tomorrow.
| Friday, May 13, 2016 | ||
| School Name |
# 1st Level Tsiolkovsky |
# 2nd Level Oberth |
| Akins High School John Sayce |
6 | |
| Fabens High School Manny Moreno |
3 | 1 |
| Hardin-Jefferson High School Mike Fogo |
2 | 1 |
| Hollenstein Career & Tech Center Richard Griffith |
2 | 2 |
| Maypearl High School James Herrod |
1 | |
| McGregor High School Chris Kuhl |
1 | 1 |
| Tom Moore (Ingram) High School David Bunch |
2 | |
| Union Grove High School Greg Park |
2 | 1 |
| Schools Launching | 8 | |
| Totals | 19 | 6 |
| May 13th Total Rockets | 25 | |
The following is a link to the album of pictures from today’s launch. Have a look you and your school rocket just might be in there.
Good luck to all the schools launching on Friday. If I get a chance to do some updates during the day tomorrow , then I will but don’t count on it. It will probably just be one at the end of day. Here is the link to the live stream again.
http://livestream.com/accounts/3165037/events/5367166
Please remember that although there is no charge for the event, and these launches are open to public viewing, parking and seating is limited due to safety requirements. For this reason, SystemsGo has a provided a link for you to pre-order tickets for those in your party. This also provides SystemsGo with a way to monitor the number of people in attendance each year. This is in no way meant to discourage your attendance, but is instead to help them provide a great experience for students and spectators, while doing all possible to monitor safety issues and attendance numbers at any one time during the launches.
https://www.greateventseats.com/events.php?lID=92
Event details will be available here each day of the event. Daily reports featuring schedules, school names, results, pictures and some editorial content will also be posted.
www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. You may also email them at info@systemsgo.org .Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.
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